Re: [seul-edu] X setup

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Jeremy,
    Xset worked fine on my standalone machine at home. However, on the
networked machines at school it didn't make a difference. When I put in a
new setting such as "xset s noblank" or "xset s 1800" then query it with
"xset q," the new value displays onscreen just fine. However, the behavior
doesn't change; it still goes blank after about 10 minutes. Do you know what
file is displayed by "xset q"? Also, I can't find anything relating to time
in the screen section of XF86Config. Is there another config file elsewhere
under Redhat 6.2 with Gnome?
Thanks,
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [seul-edu] X setup


>On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Dave Prentice wrote:
>
>> screens go black until you press a key or jiggle a mouse. Does anybody
know
>> how to change the time until the screen goes black? I'd like it to be
about
>> 30 minutes instead. I didn't see anything in gdmconfig.
>
>Try using "xset s 1800" to see if this will set the blank timeout to 30
>minutes. If this works, then set this in your XF86Config files; for
>example, "BlankTime 30" in the Screen section.
>
>But depending on your video (such as DPMS support), you may have other
>options like SuspendTime and OffTime.
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
>   http://www.reedmedia.net/
>
>